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September 25th, 2014 05:00
Need some help deleting RDF1+Mir pairs
Good day
I am trying to clean up some devices that are no longer in use in preparation of retiring a VMAX array.
I currently have a bunch of RDF1+Mir (as/400_m2107_A02 emulated devices). I have the devices in a device group, the R1's are mapped to a FA, I am able to symrdf -g ***** split, however I am not able to delete the pair after the split. I get the error the specified device does not have the dynamic RDF1 or RDF2 capable attribute set.
When I try to set that attribute on the device, I get another error that stated this operation is not allowed on an RDF device.
Now I am at a loss on what I can do here. I no longer have EMC support on these boxes,
I am using both command line and Unisphere to do this, but am not able to get these pairs split so I can delete the devices.
any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks
EMChead
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September 25th, 2014 07:00
Try doing a symconfigure to convert the devices from staic rdf to dynamic
convert rdf dev [: ] to dynamic;
fjasboka
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September 25th, 2014 05:00
You can set the dynamic capability with symconfigure -sid XX -cmd "set dev XXXX attribute=dyn_rdf;"
kumarsanjayyada
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September 25th, 2014 05:00
James, Please keep some devices into the separate file and then try to delete pair!!
MivyeDMlxp12549
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September 25th, 2014 05:00
RDF state is split
I removed all devices except 1 and am still not able to delete the pair
I have ran symrdf -g temp deletepair
and I get the error about the speficied device does not have the dynamic rdf1 or rdf2 capable attribute, which brings me back to the issue where I cannot set it.
fjasboka
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September 25th, 2014 05:00
What is the output of symrdf -g XXXX query? Have you tried deleting only on pair at the time instead of the whole group?
MivyeDMlxp12549
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September 25th, 2014 05:00
I still get the error....
MivyeDMlxp12549
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September 25th, 2014 06:00
I did the command on the wrong R2 Device... I did it against Sym 1535 which is the R1 array
here is the proper symdev show for device 07e8 on sym 1540
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symdevshow1.txt
kumarsanjayyada
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September 25th, 2014 06:00
symrdf query o/p please
kumarsanjayyada
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September 25th, 2014 06:00
You are performing this change on Production Site? Or DR?
Please run below command for Prod-Dev and DR-Dev and share the output.
symdev -sid ABC show DEVXX
kumarsanjayyada
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September 25th, 2014 06:00
Thanks for the output!!!..
Here pairing of these devices looks like incorrect.....Please see the below output from your output.
R1 Site
RDF Information
{
Device Symmetrix Name : 00A4
RDF Type : R1
RDF (RA) Group Number : 1 (00)
Remote Device Symmetrix Name : 07E8
R2 Site
RDF Information
{
Device Symmetrix Name : 07E8
RDF Type : R2
RDF (RA) Group Number : 1 (00)
Remote Device Symmetrix Name : 03F0
Does it make sense ?
MivyeDMlxp12549
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September 25th, 2014 06:00
Here is the R2 device
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symdevshow1.txt
MivyeDMlxp12549
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September 25th, 2014 06:00
I am performing it on the R1 side.
These devices are not masked to any hosts, they are just sitting idle
Here is the R1 device:
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symdevshow.txt
kumarsanjayyada
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September 25th, 2014 07:00
symrdf -g dg set mode acp_disk and try with delete pair
kumarsanjayyada
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September 25th, 2014 07:00
are all the links between the storage fine ?
kumarsanjayyada
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September 25th, 2014 07:00
symrdf -g XXXX query